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Exiit qui seminat

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  • Incipit
  1: This is a direct quote from the Vulgate of Lk 8: 5 "He who sows went forth to sow his own seed;" c[...]
  2: The direct reference to "the future farmer" is from Jer 14:8; the other references are to also Zec[...]
  3: The Latin text here in ordinatis sollicitudinibus suffocatum which means "suffocated in orderly s[...]
  4: For the Parable of the Sower cf. Mt 13: 4-8,18-23; Mk 4:3-9,14-20; Lk 8:5-8,11-15.



  • The Religion of the Friars Minor is founded upon the Gospel and strengthend by the teaching and life of Christ and His Apostles
  5: In refernce to "religious life" the Latin word religio was commonly used; compare Honorius III's S[...]
  6: "rooted" corresponds gramatically to "religion" of the previous phrase.
  7: cf. Is. 35:2.
  8: cf. 1 Cor 4:15.
  9: cf Gen 49:1-27. Jacob had twelve sons; St. Francis had twelve first disciples. Like Jacob, St. Fra[...]
  10: The reference to "sown in the garden" is to Gen 2:8; Dt 11:10; Ct 6:2; Jer 61:11; Lk 13:19; "able [...]
  11: cf. Pope John XII's Quia quorundam n. 3, quotes this sentance to demonstrate that Nicholas III's E[...]
  12: James 1:27b.
  13: James 1:17.
  14: cf. Jn 5:7: "There are three who testify in Heaven..."
  15: The Latin here, decetero, should be de cetero. The reference is to Gal 6:17.
  16: A reference to the stigmata received by St. Francis, Sept. 14, 1224 A.D., which were examined at t[...]



  • God, the Pope, and the Church have approved their way of life.
  17: cf. 2 Cor 11:3 and Rev. 12:9.
  18: cf. Mt 13:25.
  19: cf. Hab 2:7.
  20: A reference to the formal precepts of the Rule regarding the evangelical life.
  21: A reference to the exhortations to perfection which St. Francis included in his Rule.
  22: A reference to the authentic interpretations issued by the Roman Pontiffs, beginning with Gregory [...]
  23: e.g. Bl. Giles, Bl. Thomas of Celano, St. Bonaventure.
  24: e.g. St. Anthony of Padua.
  25: Second Council of Lyons, 1274 A.D., Const. 23/28.



  • God providence protects the Order
  26: A reference to the opposition of the clergy to the mendicant orders, especially the Order of Fria[...]
  27: A reference to the recent approval of the Constitutions of Lyons in 1270 A.D. which codified the [...]
  28: A reference to the beginning of controveries within the Order between the Community and the spiri[...]
  29: Sometime after Dec. 26, 1278, when Nicholas III was crowned pope, a General chapter had resolved [...]



  • My personal knowledge of the Rule and the Intention of its Author
  30: "from Our supervisory duties" translates ex imminenti nobis cura.



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